La Constitution Francoise; Presentee au Roi par L'Assemblee Nationale.
London Printing of the French Constitution of 1791 [France]. National Assembly. La Constitution Francoise; Presentee au Roi par L'Assemblee Nationale, Le 3 Septembre 1791. Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblee Nationale / London: Chez J. Debrett, 1791. [ii], 78 pp. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Disbound. Light toning, more moderate to margins of first and final leaves, internally clean. $450. * The second London edition, in French, of one of the most important documents in French political history, the Constitution of 1791. France's first constitution, it was submitted to King Louis XVI on September 3 and enacted on September 14 by the National Assembly. OCLC locates 4 copies of the second edition in North American law libraries (Yale, George Washington University, University of Minnesota, Harvard). English Short-Title Catalogue T148216.
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